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Sony patents phones asking neighbors to help sense their surroundings

Sony describes a system where a phone asks nearby devices to join in detecting objects or movement. The other devices decide whether to help, allowing multiple phones to work together to map their environment more accurately.

Why it mattersThis could make future phones better at seeing around corners or tracking objects by using the crowd of nearby devices as a shared sensor network.

In the filing’s own words

Methods, communications devices, infrastructure equipment and circuitry for requesting coordinated sensing between sensors or communication devices. A communication device determines to send a request to participate in coordinated sensing to one or more other communications devices and transmits the request to participate in coordinated sensing to the one or more other communications devices. Another communications device or an infrastructure equipment receive the request to participate in coordinated sensing and determine whether to participate in coordinated sensing with the other communications device.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method of operating a communications device configured to transmit signals to and/or receive signals from an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network and/or one or more other communications devices, the method comprising: determining to send a request to participate in coordinated sensing to one or more other communications devices; transmitting the request to participate in coordinated sensing to the one or more other communications devices.

Facts

Company
Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
Official title
METHODS, COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, AND INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT
Publication number
US20260262085A1
Application number
18995843
Filed
Jun 30, 2023
Published
Sep 3, 2026
Inventors
4
Claims
25

Classified under

H04W 74/0816 Electricity & electronicsH04B 17/346 Electricity & electronicsH04W 8/22 Electricity & electronics
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